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                                |£ million          

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The General Electric Co. plc.   |800.0              

Rolls Royce Ltd.                |435.0              

British Telecommunications plc. |8.5                

Lucas Industries plc.           |62.0               

BTR plc.                        |19.0               

Austin Rover Group Ltd.         |60.0               

Dunlop Holdings plc.            |14.0               

United Scientific Holdings plc. |21.5               

Courtaulds plc.                 |9.0                

Massey Ferguson Holdings Ltd.   |3.5                

Mr. Nellist : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence whether the figures for the value of headquarter contracts awarded to United Kingdom based Ministry of Defence contractors which were used to compile the list shown on page 15 of the "Statement on the Defence Estimates 1988" (Vol. 2) included any payments made by the Ministry of


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Defence for goods and services which were exported from the United Kingdom ; and whether these figures represent the value of contracts signed or the value of goods and services delivered.

Mr. Sainsbury : The figures in table 2.10 of volume 2 of the 1988 "Statement on the Defence Estimates" are based on an analysis of payments made directly by MOD to contractors in 1986-87.

The analysis takes into account payments for many goods and services exported from the United Kingdom. For example, it includes payments for equipment taken abroad for operations or training by the United Kingdom armed services ; however, these exports (and the corresponding imports if the items are returned to the United Kingdom) are specifically excluded from the official trade statistics.

The workshare agreements for collaborative equipment projects invariably involve a considerable amount of international exchange of components and assemblies. Where the arrangements provide for HMG to make purchases on behalf of a foreign Government--as is the case for certain items of equipment for the Harrier GR5/AV-8B project, for example--the payments made by MOD to contractors are included in the analysis. However, where funds for collaborative projects are routed through international agencies, the amounts are not included in the analysis of direct payments.

Payments made under sales arrangements, where no MOD money is involved, such as those with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, are separately accounted for, and are not included in the analysis.

Mr. Nellist : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will list in the Official Report the precise amounts paid by his Department in the year ended 31 March 1988 to (a) Jaguar Cars Ltd., (b) Sandvik Hard Materials Ltd., and (c) Kalmar Climax Ltd.

Mr. Sainsbury : The payments made to Jaguar Cars Ltd. and Kalmar Climax Ltd. in the year ended 31 March 1988 in respect of headquarters contracts were as follows :


                   |£ million          

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Jaguar Cars Ltd.   |1.0                

Kalmar Climax Ltd. |1.3                

We have no record of any headquarters contracts having been placed with Sandvik Hard Materials Ltd.

Mr. Nellist : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will list in the Official Report the total value of headquarters contracts handled by his Department in each of the five years up to 31 March 1988.

Mr. Sainsbury : The value of headquarter contracts placed in each of the four years up to 31 March 1987 is shown at table 2-9 of volume 2 of the "Statement on the Defence Estimates 1988", (Cmnd. 344-II). The value of headquarter contracts placed in the year ended 31 March 1988 was £6,541 million.

Accommodation Charges

Dr. Cunningham : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, further to his reply of 23 January, Official Report, column 452 (a) when he expects the armed forces pay review body to report on accommodtion charges for


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1989-90 and (b) what information his Department has provided to the board as to elements of rates within existing charges for Scottish accommodation.

Mr. Neubert : I refer the hon. Gentleman to the statement made by my right hon. Friend the Chief Secretary to the Treasury during the public expenditure debate on 24 February 1988, at column 312. No evidence was submitted which related specifically to Scotland, although Scottish data were included in overall figures.

Opinion Polls

Mr. Dobson : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence whether his Department or any of the armed forces have conducted opinion surveys of service personnel on matters of general public interest.

Mr. Neubert : Attitude surveys relating to conditions of service are conducted as required, but I am unaware of any which might be regarded as of general public interest. If the hon. Member is concerned about a particular survey, perhaps he would let me know and I will be pleased to write to him.

Gibraltar

Dr. Hampson : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he has any plans to change the United Kingdom force levels in Gibraltar ; and if he will make a statement.

Mr. Younger : All force levels are kept under regular review, and as part of the continuing drive for cost-effectiveness, we are considering restructuring and rationalising our forces in Gibraltar and their supporting infrastructure. In particular, subject to the outcome of detailed studies, we plan to withdraw in due course all or the major part of the infantry battalion stationed there.

Low Flying

Dr. Thomas : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if the low flying regulations permit farm buildings to be used as simulated targets during low-flying training sorties.

Mr. Neubert [holding answer 16 December 1988] : The regulations for the conduct of low-flying training in the United Kingdom do not specify particular types of features at ground level which might be used as simulated targets.

WALES

Departmental Staff (Child Care)

Ms. Richardson : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what child care provision his Department provides for pre-school-age children of employees ; what child care provision, for school holiday or after-school care, is provided for employees' children aged five and over ; what plans there are for increasing provision in the next five years ; and how these are to be funded.

Mr. Wyn Roberts : The Welsh Office does not at present provide any child care facilities directly, but the advice of welfare officers, flexi- time, part-time working, job-sharing and special leave are available to staff who have difficulties


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in arranging for the care of their children. A holiday play scheme is planned for summer 1989 and staff would be expected to contribute towards the costs.

Hazardous Waste

Mr. Gareth Wardell : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will publish in the Official Report, on a district basis, the sites in Wales used for the disposal of hazardous waste ; and if he will indicate whether they are council operated or operated by a private contractor.

Mr. Grist : Her Majesty's inspectorate of pollution has a record of 286 waste disposal facilities in Wales. These are listed by local authority area in the following table. Very few of these sites receive special waste. Details of the waste which each facility is licensed to receive can be obtained from the appropriate waste disposal authority, which is required to maintain a public register.


Type of site               |Public      |Private     |<1>In-house              

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Waste disposal authorities                                                     

Aberconwy                  |1           |0           |2                        

Alyn and Deeside           |2           |10          |3                        

Arfon                      |1           |2           |0                        

Blaenau Gwent              |1           |0           |1                        

Brecknock                  |6           |3           |0                        

Cardiff                    |2           |12          |2                        

Carmarthen                 |1           |0           |0                        

Ceredigion                 |5           |1           |2                        

Colwyn                     |2           |2           |0                        

Cynon Valley               |1           |1           |1                        

Delyn                      |2           |6           |2                        

Dinefwr                    |1           |0           |0                        

Dwyfor                     |3           |2           |16                       

Glyndwr                    |4           |0           |0                        

Islwyn                     |3           |0           |0                        

Llanelli                   |0           |1           |3                        

Lliw Valley                |2           |3           |1                        

Meirionnydd                |4           |0           |2                        

Merthyr Tydfil             |1           |0           |0                        

Monmouth                   |3           |1           |0                        

Montgomeryshire            |1           |2           |0                        

Neath                      |1           |1           |1                        

Newport                    |1           |12          |13                       

Ogwr                       |1           |6           |0                        

Port Talbot                |1           |1           |1                        

Preseli Pembrokeshire      |2           |9           |4                        

Radnor                     |2           |1           |0                        

Rhondda                    |3           |2           |0                        

Rhuddlan                   |1           |0           |0                        

Rhymney Valley             |5           |3           |0                        

South Pembrokeshire        |0           |2           |6                        

Swansea                    |4           |10          |10                       

Taff-Ely                   |3           |6           |0                        

Torfaen                    |2           |1           |5                        

Vale of Glamorgan          |2           |6           |4                        

Wrexham Maelor             |1           |9           |1                        

Ynys Mon                   |3           |1           |2                        

                           |---         |---         |---                      

Totals                     |78          |126         |82                       

<1> Site used for producers own use only.                                      

Waste Disposal

Mr. Gareth Wardell : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will publish in the Official Report a list of those waste disposal authorities that have completed their plans and deposited a copy with his Department.

Mr. Grist : The following district councils have completed their waste disposal plans and deposited copies with the Department : Aberconwy

Alyn and Deeside

Arfon

Blaenau Gwent


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Brecknock

Cardiff

Carmarthen

Ceredigion

Colwyn

Cynon Valley

Delyn

Dinefwr

Dwyfor

Glyndwr

Islwyn

Llanelli

Lliw Valley

Meirionnydd

Merthyr Tydfil

Monmouth

Montgomeryshire

Neath

Newport

Ogwr

Port Talbot

Preseli Pembrokeshire

Rhondda

Rhuddlan

Rhymney Valley

South Pembrokeshire

Swansea

Taff-Ely

Torfaen

Vale of Glamorgan

Wrexham Maelor

Ynys Mo n--Isle of Anglesey

Nursery Education

Ms. Armstrong : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will publish in the Official Report figures to show the percentage of three and four-year-olds in (a) nursery schools, (b) nursery classes and (c) infant classes in each local education authority in Wales in rank order of provision for three and four-year-olds as a whole.

Mr. Wyn Roberts : The information is not collected centrally in the form requested. However, data in respect of the percentage of three and four-year-olds in nursery schools and in primary schools is in the following table :


@

                |Nursery schools|Primary schools                

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West Glamorgan  |2.4            |85.2                           

Mid Glamorgan   |8.6            |67.5                           

Clwyd           |2.7            |73.0                           

Gwent           |10.4           |56.1                           

Dyfed           |3.1            |60.9                           

South Glamorgan |7.2            |48.8                           

Powys           |-              |50.8                           

Gwynedd         |-              |49.2                           

Pupil Numbers

Ms. Armstrong : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what is the percentage of pupils in primary schools in Wales in classes of over 30.

Mr. Wyn Roberts : During a particular teaching period of an enumeration date in January 1988 11.6 per cent. of secondary school children were taught in single-teacher classes of more than 30 children and 12 per cent. were in classes of more than 30 taught by more than one teacher. Comparable figures are not available for primary schools. However, in September 1987, 16.9 per cent. of ordinary classes in maintained primary schools had more than 30 children.

Ms. Armstrong : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will give the percentage of pupils in primary and secondary schools in Wales in classes of 35 and over in each local education authority in rank order.

Mr. Wyn Roberts : For secondary schools, the percentage of pupils who were being taught in a class group of more than 35 pupils during a particular teaching period on the enumeration date in January 1988 was as follows :


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                       |Classes taught by one |Classes taught by more                       

                       |teacher               |than one teacher                             

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Mid Glamorgan          |1.2                   |16.7                                         

Gwynedd                |0.8                   |14.8                                         

Dyfed                  |0.5                   |13.0                                         

South Glamorgan        |0.6                   |11.9                                         

Gwent                  |0.3                   |11.6                                         

West Glamorgan         |0.3                   |9.6                                          

Powys                  |0.5                   |8.0                                          

Clwyd                  |0.7                   |3.6                                          

Comparable information is not available for primary schools. However, the percentage of ordinary classes in maintained primary schools which had more than 35 children in September 1987 is as follows :


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                |Percentage           

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Clwyd           |4.8                  

Dyfed           |1.2                  

Gwent           |1.1                  

Mid Glamorgan   |1.1                  

South Glamorgan |0.9                  

Powys           |0.7                  

Gwynedd         |0.6                  

West Glamorgan  |0.6                  

EC Structural Funds

Mr. Ron Davies : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will list the areas of south Wales which he has submitted for consideration to the European Commission under its review of the European Economic Community's structural funds ; and if he will make a statement.

Mr. Peter Walker : Decisions on the eligibility for support under the EC structural funds are being taken by the European Commission on the basis of criteria set out in the governing regulations. Her Majesty's Government have recommended to the Commission cases for all four south Wales counties and for the Llanelli travel-to-work area in Dyfed. The whole of the industrial south Wales area is also covered by an integrated development operations programme bid which seeks assistance for the period 1988-92 and transitional arrangements, also included in the funds' regulations, provide for this to be considered by the Commission as planned.

Welsh Water Authority (Land)

Mr. Ron Davies : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales whether he will make a further statement about the current total land holding of the Welsh water authority.

Mr. Grist : Land owned by the Welsh water authority is a matter for that authority.

Mr. Ron Davies : To ask the Secretary of State of Wales how much land currently held by the Welsh water authority is surplus to its requirements.

Mr. Grist : The Welsh water authority informs me that it currently has 4,421 acres of land in its ownership which it considers is surplus to requirements.

Mr. Ron Davies : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how much land currently held by the Welsh water authority he expects to become surplus to its requirements during the next five years.


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Mr. Grist : Such estimates are a matter for the Welsh water authority.

Mr. Ron Davies : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales whether he will take steps to ensure that any future sale of lands currently held by the Welsh water authority is at prices which reflect their full potential value.

Mr. Grist : These are matters for the management of the Welsh water authority.

Advertising

Mr. Barry Jones : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what is the amount of money spent by the Welsh Office on advertising for each year since 1978 ; and how much of that was spent on newspaper advertisements in (a) the Western Mail, (b) the Daily Post, and (c) other newspapers.

Mr. Peter Walker [holding answer 24 January 1989] : The total spending on newspaper, television and radio advertising and other promotional activities (literature exhibitions and so on) is as follows :


        |£              

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1979-80 |61,000         

1980-81 |62,000         

1981-82 |100,000        

1982-83 |99,000         

1983-84 |108,000        

1984-85 |121,000        

1985-86 |227,427        

1986-87 |406,965        

1987-88 |576,500        

The spending from 1979-80 to 1984-85 on newspaper advertising is not readily available and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.

The sum spent on newspaper advertising from 1985-86 and subsequent financial years is as follows :


           |£ thousand           

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1985-86    |98                   

1986-87    |110                  

1987-88    |140                  

The principal areas of advertising for each of these financial years is :


                                                  |£ thousand           

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1985-86                                                                 

Transport and Highways                            |72                   

Establishments Group (Recruitment/Public Notices) |10                   

Miscellaneous publicity (all other divisions)     |16                   

                                                  |---                  

                                                  |98                   

                                                                        

1986-87                                                                 

Transport and Highways                            |97                   

Establishments Group (Recruitment/Public Notices) |5                    

Miscellaneous publicity (all other divisions)     |8                    

                                                  |---                  

                                                  |110                  

                                                                        

1987-88                                                                 

Transport and Highways                            |101                  

Establishments Group (Recruitment/Public Notices) |10                   

Miscellaneous publicity (all other divisions)     |29                   

                                                  |---                  

                                                  |140                  

More detailed information on spending in individual newspaper titles is not readily available and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.

HEALTH

Food Poisoning

Mrs. Gorman : To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment has been made as to whether the 184 per cent. rise in notified cases of food poisoning between 1980 and 1987 results from (a) contaminated food ; (b) poor kitchen hygiene, or (c) any other significant reason ; and what is the estimated proportionate responsibility of these factors.

Mr. Kenneth Clarke : In the majority of cases of reported bacterial food poisoning the suspected vehicle or source of infection is not identified. Comprehensive data are available only from 1970 to 1982 on a number of outbreaks where a food vehicle was identified by the investigators. Some of main contributory factors were preparation of food too far in advance, storage of food at ambient temperature, inadequate cooking of food, inadequate reheating of food, inadequate thawing and under cooking of food. All these factors would have encouraged the growth of food poisoning organisms present in the food. My advisers believe that these contributory factors remain important.

Mrs. Gorman : To ask the Secretary of State for Health what foodstuffs, other than eggs, were attributed to the cases of food poisoning notified in 1987.

Mr. Kenneth Clarke : In the majority of cases of reported food poisoning the suspected vehicle or source of infection is not identified. In 1987, in those reported outbreaks where the food vehicle was identified, the following foods were involved : poultry or poultry mixed with other foods ; beef ; pork/ham ; lamb ; mixed meats and meat pies ; fish/shellfish ; rice ; milk and desserts.

Mr. Wray : To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many of the cases of food poisoning attributable to chicken and eggs in 1988 required some form of medical attention or treatment from the National Health Service.

Mr. Kenneth Clarke : This information is not available.

Grading

Mr. Robin Cook : To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many nursing and midwifery staff from each of the old grades have been assimilated to each of the new grades in the clinical grading structure by each regional health authority and by each health district.

Mr. Mellor : The information the hon. Member requested has now been placed in the Library.

Psychiatric Patients (Accommodation)

Mr. Allen : To ask the Secretary of State for Health what research his Department has undertaken into the relative standards of in-patient psychiatric hospital accommodation and that available to discharged former patients.


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Mr. Freeman : Several research projects about alternative provision to mental hospitals have been funded by the Department, and I will send the hon. Member a list and place a copy in the Library when this is ready.

In addition, Ministers have recently set in hand work to get a clearer picture of the development of services across the country for people with a mental illness. The objective is to provide Ministers with a properly informed basis for considering whether there are any steps it would be right and practical to take to improve the care of mentally ill people.

Junior Doctors

Mr. Allen : To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many junior hospital doctors work (a) more than 80 hours a week, (b) more than 104 hours a week, and (c) more than 112 hours a week (i) in the Nottingham district health authority and (ii) in the Trent regional health authority.


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